Re: LEGENDS - Experience

From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)

Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1993 16:44:16 +0000

drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk:
>I have also found that if you use up all the character actions of a
>particular person on tasks that all employ the same skill, then you have
>a much better chance of that skill going up.

I can't imagine the game being programmed this way.  I think you're
the victim of a statistical fallacy:  Suppose you have a three-action
character and there's a 20% chance of going up if you employ a particular
skill.  Clearly the chance of going up if you employ it three times is
going to be 1 - (0.8^3), or 48.8%, which is significantly better.  It
doesn't mean that there's any special virtue to combinations, merely
that you improve your chances if you keep trying.

As a rule of thumb, after you've got a skill to about 15th or 16th level
(say 20th, in a good guild), you're probably better off to improve it
by using it, rather than by practicing.  Remember, you also get the
benefit of whatever use you made of it.

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Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

'T is with our judgements as our watches, none
   Go alike, yet each believes his own
		--Alexander Pope

References

Re: LEGENDS - Experience
fayers@cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)
Fri, 02 Apr 1993 10:24:47 +0000
Re: LEGENDS - Experience
drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)
Fri, 02 Apr 1993 12:33:55 +0000